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Will now only send one warning letter to those accused of illegal file-sharing before it implements technical measures that include Internet disconnection.
UK Business Secretary Lord Mandelson and his Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) has apparently been quite successful in lobbying for legislation to implement its “evolved” measures for tackling illegal file-sharing.
So successful in [...]

Will offer streaming music videos and concert footage from select artists.
Hulu, the ubiquitous free streaming video on demand site, has announced that it’s teamed up with Big 4 music label EMI to begin offering free streaming of music videos and concert footage with select artists.
“We think Hulu is an excellent, high-quality environment and a great [...]

Revenue earned by artists from both concerts and recorded music sales has risen steadily over the past 5 years as revenue earned by labels has declined dramatically, therefore making the case that the only real loser from illegal file-sharing has been the record labels themselves,
Music labels have been the most vocal critic of file-sharing, doing [...]

“Secure Federal File Sharing Act” would bar government employees and contractors from downloading, installing, or using file-sharing software without official approval.
Finally somebody in Congress has realized that there is a real problem when govt employees install P2P software on the same PC that contains sensitive information.
U.S. Representative Edolphus “Ed” Towns (D-NY), Chairman [...]

Swedish BitTorrent site tracker site further decentralizes content distribution, and in fact decides not to run a tracker anymore.
Swedish BitTorrent tracker site The Pirate Bay has taken content distribution to the next level with the introduction of site-wide magnet links that let you download a torrent directly into your BitTorrent client, instead of your browser.
The [...]

Despite a great deal of evidence to the contrary, the MPAA and its allies in the content industries constantly declare that it is, “impossible to compete with free.”  As recently as this September, Frederick Huntsberry, the Chief Operating Officer of Paramount Pictures declared before an FCC hearing that, “ultimately no industry can compete with [...]

Second largest phone company in the US agrees to forward notices of copyright infringement on behalf of the entertainment industry, perhaps hinting at a sign of things to come as ISPs slowly enter the world of content distribution.
Perhaps hinting a sign of things to come, Verizon Communications will reportedly begin forwarding notices of copyright [...]

Given chance to appear before the Swedish Court of Appeal and argue against order requiring it to cut off bandwidth to Swedish BitTorrent tracker site after it was convicted for copyright infringement.
Back in early August, Sweden’s Stockholm District Court ordered Black Internet, The Pirate Bay’s largest bandwidth provider, to cut off service to the [...]

From 6pm to midnight file-sharing traffic will be slowed, but not blocked.
Starting today, UK-based mobile phone provider 3 will begin throttling network P2P traffic during peak hours, which a spokesman says is generally between 6pm and midnight.
“In busy areas, at busy times customers using mobile broadband can experience a slower service,” it told ZDNet [...]

Stifles rumors that it plans to shut down the site or create a new one as it works to rewrite code for those parts of the site that were deleted during recent hardware “problem.”
It’s been a little over two months now that BitTorrent tracker site Demonoid went offline after suffering from hardware issues that resulted [...]

Not satisfied with “three-strikes” alone, says that all P2P sites that refuse to install filters preventing users from uploading copyrighted material by the end of the year will face “severe measures.”
Back in July of this year South Korea earned the infamous distinction of being the first country in the world to enact a “three strikes,” [...]

Francis Gurry, director-general of the UN’s World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), says the solution to illegal P2P piracy isn’t “putting teenagers in jail.”
Francis Gurry, director-general of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), a UN agency created in 1967 “to encourage creative activity, to promote the protection of intellectual property throughout the world,” gave a speech [...]

It is not often that one gets to see justice, of a sort anyway, happen so quickly.  Just Thursday, The Economist magazine, one of the most influential and widely read business news publications in the world, published an article and corresponding editorial crowing about how the problem of piracy in the music industry was coming [...]

Boxee, the well known media center application that originally began as a fork from the community created XBMC project, announced today at the NewTeeVee Live Conference that they will be partnering with a consumer electronics manufacturer to produce and sell a Boxee-branded connected device.  The also announced that they expect to have Boxee technology embedded [...]

Users can watch over 800 movies for free or at little cost.
Content innovation apparently continues to elude the US with news that a new Sweden-based movies on-demand service called Voddler launched a few weeks ago.
Though comparable to Hulu, users of the services’s free movie section are only forced to watch a single advertisement that appears [...]

Rheet Reese laments that Zombieland is currently the most pirated movie on BitTorrent, and says that it may ruin chances for a sequel.
A few days ago I mentioned how the writer and director of Ink praised piracy, and BitTorrent in particular, for generating “unprecedented exposure” for the movie, pushing it to #16 on [...]

Demand clarity, reform, say blind enforcement risks the delicate balance between copyright holders and users, and may also “trample upon principles that are pillars of fundamental human rights.” Wants developing countries to have increased say as major copyright holder nations advance their agenda.
Developing countries are starting to realize they must be proactive in developing intellectual [...]

Redlynx says pirated version doesn’t include all features, and hopes users of the bootleg version would want to pay for full, legitimate copy after trying it.
Redlynx, a multiplatform game developer based in Helsinki, Finland. RedLynx, has admitted to uploading scaled down versions of Trials for the PC to a number of BitTorrent tracker sites.
CEO Tero [...]

After a somewhat rocky start, the Android platform from Google is beginning to pick up steam, and with the new Motorola Droid model from Verizon, and with multiple new handsets promised from a number of manufacturers, Android is poised to challenge the iPhone and Symbian platforms for future supremacy (WinMo seems moribund at best).  As [...]

Writer and director, while “not excited that people are seeing the film without paying,” love the fact that BitTorrent has given Ink an “enormous amount of exposure.”
Many of us BitTorrent users are well aware that at best there’s a casual relationship between availability on tracker sites and box office ticket sales.
For example, The Dark Knight, [...]